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| Text on Button | MICKEY MOUSE CLUB © |
| Image Description | Black text on a white background with an illustration of Mickey Mouse in the center. |
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| Additional Information | Before the Mickey Mouse Club television, show was an actual Mickey Mouse Club—a club for young fans of all things Disney. The club held its inaugural meeting in the Elsinore Theatre in Salem, Oregon on December 21, 1929, and attracted over 1000 young people. By the 1930s, the club had over 1 million members. The Mickey Mouse Club show debuted on ABC in 1955 and featured a regular cast of teenagers who performed skits and musical numbers. These performers were known as Mouseketeers, and they became instant celebrities, as would their successors in the numerous revivals of the show. Mickey Mouse Club had several iterations, relaunching in 1977, 1989, and 1994, with the most recent revival kick-starting the careers of global superstars like Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, and Ryan Gosling. While the first run of the Mickey Mouse Club ended in 1959, the original logo for the show is still in wide use, appearing regularly in Disney-branded products. Click here, here, and here to see other Mikey Mouse Club buttons. |
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Lynn, C. (2019, December 24). Here’s how Salem kids formed the first ever Mickey Mouse Club in the nation in 1929. Statesman Journal. Retrieved from https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2019/12/23/disney-first-mickey-mouse-club-elsinore-theatre-salem-oregon/2664130001/ Mickey Mouse Club (television). D23. (2018, March 7). Retrieved from https://d23.com/a-to-z/mickey-mouse-club-television/ Smith, D. R. (1982, Summer). Buttons! Disney News Magazine, 12–13. |
| Catalog ID | CL0700 |